“The ordinance will only achieve its ultimate goal if it is created with a detailed plan to include those who are being excluded from the area now.”Immergluck thinks the ordinance should help maintain diversity in these neighborhoods, but encourages increased funding for affordable housing—“especially aimed at preserving existing low-cost rental housing where lower-income folks are already living.”That’s an issue that goes beyond the BeltLine itself.
The city knew people would pay to be in that location and have the experience of the BeltLine in their backyard, basically.”Eldridge also says she knew quite a few people older people in her neighborhood who felt there were several attempts to force them out of their homes they owned around that time. Can a proposed inclusive housing bill help?A stroller passing new townhomes under construction along Atlanta's BeltLine. “I couldn’t afford them on a teachers salary.” She now lives in Fairburn, Georgia, about 23 miles away.“I’ve been praying that I can get to a point where I can afford to come back, because it’s the only home I’ve ever known,” says Eldridge. It also means that the benefits of gentrification will flow mostly to more affluent households moving in.”In short, Immergluck predicts, the runaway success of the BeltLine could be counterbalanced by some stark negatives for Atlanta as a whole: “In the long run, without intervention, it will lead to the economic and possibly racial resegregation of the city.”On a humid October evening, community members of neighborhoods where the BeltLine will arrive next met at the Families First building in southwest Atlanta, to discuss one possible way to avoid this fate: an inclusive zoning ordinance introduced by Atlanta City Council members Andre Dickens and Michael Julian Bond.“The BeltLine is becoming increasingly unaffordable for those who serve Atlanta,” Dickens told the crowd. Another dedicated volunteer, Olivia Feeney who is a voluntary service fellow at HJL, said that the best way to get involved with the campaign is to sign the “BeltLine for All” petition “to hold the BeltLine accountable to their affordable housing promises.”“We’re trying to … hold them accountable to that goal [of 5,600 affordable housing units],” Feeney said.
Green urban development, environmental gentrification, and the Atlanta Beltline,” from Georgia State urban studies professor Daniel Immergluck and Tharunya Balan, a … The BeltLine is making the neighborhoods in its path too expensive. All of their property taxes, instead of going to state, instead of going to schools, they’re going to the BeltLine project itself.”According to Eisen, there is little hope in stopping the BeltLine’s expansion soon, as it has operated for over 10 years. They make the displacement of poor people sound so harmless.” The protection should be permanent.” He lives in Grove Park, a neighborhood that’s about two miles away from the BeltLine, but a connection in the new I just feel like, why should we have to move outside of our community so that they can make our community better? Those fears The degree to which the BeltLine is eating away at Atlanta’s affordable housing is the focus of a recent paper, ““Rapid gentrification, left to its own devices, will drive housing costs up, and for those with low incomes, especially lower-income renters, this is a real burden,” says Immergluck. “[The founders of the HJL and other affiliates] pushed for the original 5,600-unit requirement, which is not being lived up to.”Since then, the HJL has had one victory: a mandatory inclusive for the BeltLine area. Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin created the nonprofit Atlanta BeltLine Partnership (ABP) in 2005, with the first trail opening in 2008. Other attendees nodded in agreement at this.Kelly also raised the issue of housing for older residents, many of whom earn less than the AMI. Make it middle class with us being here.Another resident, Cynthia Scott, reported that “buyers are harassing homeowners with unsolicited letters and phone calls in the interest of buying low from current residents and selling high to middle and upper income new residents.”The effects of the development have been particularly pronounced in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, a rough-edged formerly industrial neighborhood that’s gone heavily upscale since the completion of its stretch of the BeltLine.
The BeltLine under construction in the Old Fourth Ward in 2012.A stroller passing new townhomes under construction along Atlanta's BeltLine. “Then, hopefully, we’ll be able to push them even [further] to have more policies that would prioritize affordability and housing and allowing people to stay in their homes.” on gentrification and displacement, said that this isn’t the first time gentrification has been disguised as redevelopment efforts, pointing the case of Ponce City Market.“Later down the line, [these changes] only contribute to the displacement of families and, in particular, black families in Atlanta,” Johnson said.Eisen explained that Atlanta residents should not have to choose between having the BeltLine or having affordable homes.According to Eisen, the goal of “BeltLine for All” isn’t to get rid of the BeltLine, but to make the BeltLine accessible to all without displacing low-income residents.